Tag: Phoenix Suns

In my dad's bookshelf at my parents' Northern Arizona home is a copy of FOUL!: The Connie Hawkins Story. On the inside cover is a personalized inscription Hawkins made out to my dad. The revolutionary basketball star appeared at a youth clinic in the late 1990s, speaking to a few dozen kids from the small…

Utter the words "coin flip" around NBA fans in the state of Arizona, and you may as well risk blindness washing your mouth out with soap. The next NBA season marks the 50th anniversary of the Phoenix Suns, and they'll celebrate their half-centennial with the still-lingering question of how things might be different had the…